Gallery had long been thought to be a target of the Seahawks, primarily due to his ties with offensive line coach Tom Cable. Gallery, 31, played under Cable when Cable was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders.

So Seattle’s offensive line will likely look like this: LT Russell Okung, LG Gallery, C Max Unger, RG John Moffitt, RT James Carpenter. That’s quite a bit of youth, another reason why pursuing Gallery makes a whole lot of sense from the Seahawks perspective. Minus Gallery, the rest of that line has just 27 career NFL starts, and none of the players mentioned above have ever played with one another. A veteran presence like Gallery can go a long way toward promoting cohesion.

Gallery also provides the kind of size — 6-foot-7, 325 pounds — to figure prominently in the Seahawks’ plans to revamp the run game. He began his career as a left tackle before moving to left guard, and has developed a reputation as one of the nastiest run blockers in the league.